The XFormWebService will transform any Word document into XML, weather it was authored on Word for Mac, Word 95/97/2000/XP, etc. It will even do RTF files from Word Pad, etc.
As far as calling the Web Service, it is a standard XML/SOAP web service which can be called from any platform which can talk HTTP and SOAP which is virtually everyone. Platforms like Microsoft .NET and Sun ONE make it very easy to call Web Services natively, but you can do it from older platforms like VB and C++ by using Microsoft's SOAP Toolkit. Regards, Doug ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diego TERCERO" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Douglas Kerwin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Jeremy Tapp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 1:06 PM Subject: RE: [cms-list] WYSIWYG Editor suggestions Does that Work with MAC OS 9 ? Regards, Diego > -----Message d'origine----- > De : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]De > la part de Douglas Kerwin > Envoy� : mercredi 4 d�cembre 2002 18:48 > � : Jeremy Tapp; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Objet : Re: [cms-list] WYSIWYG Editor suggestions > > > Why not just use Microsoft Word as your WYSIWYG editor? > Metaverse offers a > Web Service to convert a Word document to XML format, then > gives an XML > Stylehsheet (XSL) to transform the XML into HTML. > > The web service is at; > > http://xform.metaverse.cc/xformservice.asmx > > www.metaverse.cc for more information. > > Regards, > Doug > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jeremy Tapp" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 12:02 PM > Subject: [cms-list] WYSIWYG Editor suggestions > > > > Hello all, > > > > My first post to the list, though I have been reading with > interest now > for > > a couple of months. > > > > I wonder if anyone can help me - I'm looking for > suggestions of a WYSIWYG > > editor to add into our CMS. > > > > My company has developed an in house CMS on which we > operate for various > > specialist niche community/magazine sites. (links below so > you can see > the > > sort of things it does and the types of articles our > editors are writing > on > > the system - different sites use different and varied > article templates). > > It's all built in ASP and the "Add article" page is simply > a web form into > > which editors type raw HTML for the article body text. We > need to keep > the > > overall system as it has real strengths in other areas but > the lack of a > > nice clean edit function for non-techy editors is the next > thing we would > > like to sort and turn to a WYSIWIG system. We don't want > to re-invent the > > wheel, so what we are looking for is a simple plug in > module that can take > > the place of the one form field on the page (there's lots > of other stuff > in > > the page it needs to fit into) where they type the body text. > > > > Specification thoughts: > > (1) They need to be able to do a range of simple mark up (Bold, > Hyperlink, > > Italics, Paragraphs etc) without worrying about HTML > > (2) Some more advanced functions would be nice (Certainly adding in > images > > and captions aligned right, left or centre) > > (3) The ability to toggle between WYSIWYG the raw HTML > view (many of our > > editors are tech savvy and will handcode special bits) > > (4) Wait for it... It needs to work on Mac and PC clients! > (This has > been > > our biggest problem with the few we've found to date and > it's a problem we > > need to solve) We've thought about doing a browser sense > then serving up > > one of two optimised solutions depending on the editors' > platform as a > work > > around. Thoughts on this approach? > > (5) Needs to be online only - ie all the functionality in > the page - and > > preferably not too heavy. > > > > Budget is near non-existent (obviously :-) as we cover our > costs with > > internet advertising. Think less than �400 absolute tops > for a patch in > bit > > of code to work in all our sites (a couple of which we license to > clients) - > > and ideally it would be near free. > > > > My questions: > > (A) Does anyone have or recommend any plug-in type modules > that might > suit > > our needs? > > (B) Am I barking up the wrong tree or is this the right > way to look at > > solving the problem? > > (C) Would you say I'm missing anything in my spec? > > > > I'm going to put the shortlist through a selection process with our > editors > > and I'll post our findings back to this list if there is interest. > > > > Our sites (for example articles - pick a sport you like!): > > http://www.bikemagic.com > > http://www.fishingmagic.com > > http://www.outdoorsmagic.com > > http://www.golfmagic.com > > > > The ones we run for clients: > > http://www.runnersworld.co.uk > > http://www.digitalcameramagazine.co.uk > > > > Many thanks indeed for any help or thoughts you can give me, > > > > Jeremy > > 0207 861 9866 > > > > > > -- > > http://cms-list.org/ > > trim your replies for good karma. > > > > -- > http://cms-list.org/ > trim your replies for good karma. > -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
